Legal Profession Act 1966 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 9 · Recovery and Assessment of Costs
117. Charging orders
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Any court in which a solicitor has been employed to prosecute or defend any suit, matter or proceeding may —
court
“court” means the General Division of the High Court or a Judge sitting in open court in the General Division of the High Court;
at any time declare the solicitor entitled to a charge on the property recovered or preserved through his or her instrumentality for his or her assessed costs in reference to that suit, matter or proceeding; and
make such orders for the assessment of the costs and for paying, or raising money to pay, the costs out of that property as it thinks fit.
All conveyances and acts done to defeat, or operating to defeat, the charge mentioned in subsection (1)(a) are, except in the case of a conveyance to a bona fide purchaser for value without notice, void as against the solicitor.
solicitor
“advocate and solicitor”, “advocate” and “solicitor” mean an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court;
An order must not be made under subsection (1) if the right to recover the costs is barred by the Limitation Act 1959.